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Hello and welcome once again to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe.

Today is August 24th, 2007.

As many of you have probably already heard but some may have not, this is a very sad

episode for the Skeptics Guide.

The Skeptical Rogue Perry Deangilus passed away on August 19th.

We are going to have a more complete and more fitting memorial for Perry on next week's

show.

For this week, we are simply going to play some of Perry's best moments.

These are clips from previous episodes chosen by Perry's fans.

I want to give a special thanks to Mike Lesell, who runs SGUFans.net for putting together

this collection of clips for us.

Also before those clips, we will include a lecture that Perry gave about ten years ago.

This was part of a seminar that we gave to science school teachers at that time.

So I give to you a brief retrospective of Perry Deangilus and the full panel of Skeptics

and I will return next week to share our thoughts and our memories of Perry.

Okay, I'm just going to talk to you very briefly now about psychology and how it impacts

what we've been talking about.

I'm going to touch on the psychology of needs, your needs, some flexibility to a conscious

or not to be.

Effects of crisis when you're at the most vulnerable, cults, what they do, the placebo.

Now the next four are the placebo effect, the ediomotor effect, mastillusion, salusion

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